Plank's Tavern Co. v. Burkhard

In the winter 6f 1888 and 1889 there was talk among the people of the village of St. Joseph about building a large hotel under the auspices of an incorporated hotel company. This agitation was occasioned by the visit of John 0. Plank to the village, who.represented to its citizens that he would cause the erection in the village of a large summer hotel, with a capacity of entertaining 500 guests or more, said hotel to cost $150,000, in case the people of St. Joseph would subscribe $20,000, to be taken in stock in a corporation to be organized for the construction and operation of such a hotel.…